I can respect the pov of "server will go to velious, so net-positive feature changes up to that point can go in at launch". That same logic probably justifies things like temple of sol ro, removal of manastone/guise etc, but at least you leave yourself the out of qualifying things as a "net-positive." Unambiguously not a classic server at that point, but at least there is some defensible logic behind your proposed changes.
For my part, pvp in EQ is so grossly imbalanced that I don't really care whether we have pumice for a few months. The vast majority of pvp during classic is either going to be large-scale guild v guild "territory control", for which I hardly think pumice is game-breaking (since golem wands will be in, you arent exactly championing dispels as the purview of enchanters or anything like that), or gank-squads rolling around killing people 8 levels lower than them, again for which pumice makes effectively no difference.
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